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The Red and the Green is the only historical novel by Iris Murdoch. [3]: 140 Murdoch, though born in Dublin to Protestant parents, left Ireland as an infant and spent her life in England. She undertook extensive research into Irish history in preparation for writing the novel. [4]
The Red Book of Ossory (Latin Liber Rubrum Ossoriensis) is a medieval manuscript produced in Kilkenny, Ireland, and usually kept in the Representative Church Body Library [1] in Dublin. [2] On 82 folios, [3] the manuscript contains a number of texts in Latin, Middle English [a] and in Anglo-Norman.
Red Book of Munster (Leabhar Ruadh Muimhneach), a lost c. 1400 Irish genealogical work by Murchadh Ó Cuindlis Red Book of Ossory , produced in Kilkenny, Ireland, a medieval manuscript Another name for the Liturgia Svecanae Ecclesiae catholicae & orthodoxae conformia , which sought to reintroduce elements of Catholic liturgy during the Swedish ...
Red Data List Vascular Plants of Ireland [permanent dead link ] BiodiversityIreland.ie: National Biodiversity Data Centre — (Waterford) Herbaria United — choose Ireland from the country menu to view digital images of 3000+ herbarium specimens collected in Ireland. Species.ie: Irish Species Register — access the lists via the Taxonomy ...
The stories of the Mabinogion appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written c. 1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written about 1382–1410, though texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later ...
The Ulster Cycle (Irish: an Rúraíocht), [1] formerly known as the Red Branch Cycle, is a body of medieval Irish heroic legends and sagas of the Ulaid. It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster , particularly counties Armagh , Down and Louth . [ 2 ]
The Red Hand of Ulster (Irish: Lámh Dhearg Uladh) is a symbol used in heraldry [1] to denote the Irish province of Ulster and the Northern Uí Néill in particular. It has also been used however by other Irish clans across the island, including the ruling families of western Connacht (i.e. the O'Flahertys and MacHughs) and the chiefs of the Midlands (e.g. O'Daly, O'Kearney, etc.).
The Red Branch (from Old Irish Cróeb Ruad 'dull red branch'; alternatively, from Old Irish Cróeb Derg 'bright red branch') is the name of two of the three royal houses of the king of Ulster, Conchobar mac Nessa, at his capital Emain Macha (Navan Fort, near Armagh), in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. In modern retellings it is sometimes ...